Perspectives

It is crazy. You work you ass off for a year or two and then you get to prove yourself in 50 milli seconds? Or that is what some canadian researchers seem to think.

Webyantra’s new blog has a couple of good first points. Thanks for that good post Amit. I completely agree on “Users are distracted”. I almost agree on “UI is the software, but you cannot get away with a bad backend. UI supplements a good backend but does not help a bad backend.

I also agree on KISS ( Keep it short and simple) . Talking of simplicity, I got this pic from one of the blogs I was reading a while ago. (Sorry, I am unable to acredit the author of this pic. If you know, please let me know, I would like to give him a mention).

This is a brilliant expression of feature simplicity. I think most people work because they dont have anything else to do. It doesnt matter whether the user needs it or not.

I guess a good product manager’s job is not at all about loading a product with features. It is finding that tipping point, where you have all that most users want and nothing more.

Here is another piece of suggestion. If you like this kinda stuff, go read “Getting real” from folks at 37signals. Pretty darn neat!

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